Retired School Librarian @tomstream

My school emails were FOIAed because books in my libraries had LGBTQ characters. Now I hang out all day with my wife and dogs. 1990 MSU grad. Deremo Island Joined July 2008

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3 days ago

@TheWittyGirl Very exciting for you!

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3 days ago

@Deaib_szn @iky_fwjett It’s film.

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4 days ago

@xtheadventx It is witchcraft!

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BBC News (UK) @BBCNews

a week ago

Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine bbc.in/4ovjOLq

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a week ago

@midwestern_ope It’s like that, sometimes.

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The U.S. government just made a land deal with the world's first trillionaire. Not a sale. A trade. Because apparently that's how we do things now. 715 acres of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge - built by Congress in 1979 to protect one of the most biodiverse wildlife corridors left in North America - handed to SpaceX. Endangered ocelots. Aplomado falcons. Piping plovers. Land the Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation of Texas has called sacred since long before there was a United States. SpaceX built a rocket launch site next door. Then came the explosions. Concrete and metal hurled six miles across refuge land. A 2024 study found that after one launch, every single monitored shorebird nest near the site suffered egg damage or loss. The Fish and Wildlife Service's response was not enforcement. It was a land swap. FOIA documents show internal planning for this transfer started as early as April 2025 - while Musk was running DOGE and threatening to fire federal workers who didn't justify their jobs to him. The agency developed what they called "the most expedited schedule possible" to get it done. Part of what's being handed over includes the Palmito Ranch Battlefield - the site of the last battle of the Civil War. A National Historic Landmark. Once transferred, SpaceX can restrict public access whenever they want. 25,000+ people submitted public comments. Most opposed the deal. The government moved forward anyway. A coalition of tribal and conservation groups filed a federal lawsuit this week to stop it. Because someone has to. Why are we cutting real estate deals with a trillionaire when we could have just made him pay for it? #DemsUnited

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tern @1goodtern

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There are some people who would have you believe that vaccines basically all work the same for different infections, and all have the same effect, but that's not true. Let me explain this as simply as I can:

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2 weeks ago

@TrishFischerr @PunkRockClub On the internet???

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2 weeks ago

@hemantmehta @MalcolmNance Continents, too.

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2 weeks ago

@PunkRockClub And Lisa Simpson is a cartoon character, right?

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kiwi @kiki_biki_

2 weeks ago

Noel Gallagher made the list 😭💀

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2 weeks ago

@horrormuseum Many people don’t know that in middle school music class, we would sing this from lyric sheets regularly.

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2 weeks ago

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2 weeks ago

do americans not consider y a vowel ???

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2 weeks ago

@boneless_bones7 @RandyMcMillan @horrormuseum I feel like this is the tomahawk you’re talking about.

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2 weeks ago

@DrewBrummelWX @Lynn_Henning @EvanHeemstraWx Bill Steffen just posted a substack about the massive derecho that hit west Michigan 30 years ago. 130 mph winds hit Grand Haven. Scariest weather event I’ve had the “privilege” of experiencing.

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2 weeks ago

@RossKneeDeep Rock and roll all night and party every day!

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2 weeks ago

@Jillyconjem2 @AmazingPopPod Saw it at midnight movies so many times!

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2 weeks ago

@MSU_Surplus Seems weird to fill it with ammonia. Guess the ancestors knew something we don’t now.

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2 weeks ago

@thatuapgirl My brother and I saw 3 lights in the shape of a triangle rotating in the western night sky for a couple minutes in the late 70’s. That’s pretty obscure.